It’s been one year to the day since we officially went live here at DroidGamers and it has been one heck of a year to say the least. We have grown ridiculously fast and we have no signs of slowing down. To celebrate, we are going to be doing a ton of things for all of you over the course of the next month!
[GDC 2011] Gamebook Adventures to come to Android in the future. Choose your own adventure-style awesomeness.
We got to sit down with a few developers from Australia and even though they are mostly iOS developers, they are planning to bring their games to Android as well. One such developer is Tin Man Games which produces the series called Gamebook Adventures. These are a ‘choose your own adventure’ type of game.
I’ve always been a fan of the Risk game across all of the different versions that are available to play, even the old school board game version. It seems some developers want to bring Risk to real-life, or close to it anyways. Based off a check-in system, you’ll be able to take over other cities you are near or at if you have a large enough army.
Distinctive Developments to release Hockey Nations 2011 this month. Comes complete with in-game fights.
So far when it comes to Hockey games on Android, there are a few good ones out there including Hockey Nations 2010 from Distinctive Developments. Well now that it is 2011, it is time for the new version to be released and while the 2010 edition was complete, it was missing one thing that all Hockey games seem to be missing.
Minecraft developers new game, Scrolls, looking at mobile versions as well as PC, that includes Android.
Mojang, developers of the extremely popular PC game Minecraft which is also now heading to Android, have talked about their new upcoming game called Scrolls. While Scrolls is a completely different type of game from Minecraft, developers have already stated that the game will be for PC and a version for mobile as well.
Bigpoint, one of the more major browser-based gaming companies out right now, can see the promise in mobile gaming and Android as well. They are planning to bring as many of their titles to Android in the near future which is great if you’ve ever played a Bigpoint game. All of their games are MMOs and generally high quality 3D graphics.
EA has a rather popular RPG game on Facebook called Dragon Age: Legends and it will be making the jump to mobile, including Android, in the near future. This is an entirely 2D-based RPG game for all you RPG fans out there to play. As with any RPG game, you’ll be able to do quests, level up, get gear and all that good stuff.
OpenFeint and The9 have formed a little partnership to help indie developers in bringing their games to Android from other platforms. We all know OpenFeint have been helping the indie scene for quite some time now and The9 is a Chinese game publisher that happens to have a $100 million dollar fund set up.
[GDC 2011] Unity3D shows up strong. Releases dedicated Android tools and announces contest to win Pro licenses.
Unity3D had a fairly large booth at GDC 2011 and among all the goodies they were showing off was their new set of tools dedicated to Android game development using Unity3D. We also got the low down on Union for you developers who are interested in having your Unity-based games in the Union showcase.
In case you don’t have enough MMORPGs to play, not that there is a whole lot of them available for Android, there is another one making the journey to Android soon. World of Midgard is an MMORPG developed using the Unity3D game engine (that is becoming a common phrase these days) and features some pretty impressive content and graphics.